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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 825 · 40 questions
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Remember (Book and writer): Ramayana – Valmiki, Mahabharata – Ved Vyasa, Panchatantra – Vishnu Sharma, Ramcharitmanas – Tulsidas, Meghaduta – Kalidasa, Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore, Tirukkural – Thiruvalluvar. Godan and Idgah – Premchand, The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling, Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll, Wings of Fire – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata and has 18 chapters; there were 5 Pandava brothers.

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  1. 1.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  3. 3.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  6. 6.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  11. 11.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  19. 19.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. 25.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Godan
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. Alice in Wonderland
  3. Tirukkural
  4. Krishna
  5. Rama
  6. False
  7. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  8. Sanskrit
  9. Vishnu Sharma
  10. Hindi
  11. False
  12. False
  13. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  14. False
  15. Rudyard Kipling
  16. False
  17. Premchand
  18. Valmiki
  19. the Panchatantra
  20. False
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. Tamil
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. Premchand
  25. True
  26. the Ramayana
  27. 18
  28. False
  29. Ramcharitmanas
  30. 18
  31. Gitanjali
  32. True
  33. Ved Vyasa
  34. False
  35. False
  36. Mowgli
  37. Wings of Fire
  38. Rabindranath Tagore
  39. Sanskrit
  40. animal stories

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